Ok I am going to defend the guy somewhat. He clealy can't be talking about C# or any other CLR languages themselves, that would be just plain dumb and I'm going

Ok I am going to defend the guy somewhat. He clealy can't be talking about C# or any other CLR languages themselves, that would be just plain dumb and I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. I guess he is talking about the various Microsoft supplied frameworks. Within say, Silverlight, it is easy to dip your toe in, get to something like databinding, and go off the rails, trying to bend silverlight to your will to do something that should be easy, and coming away with the impression that what you are doing is totally impossible within silverlight. Then you spend 20 minutes actually thinking instead of in a Microsoft hate fugue state and you see that it actually is easy if you don't fight the framework. So you are like "fuck you .net I want to do it my way!" But that is the nature of frameworks, not endemic to .net.